Date

2022-01-20

Protocol

Protocol changed

Item Changed

Intervention(s) planned

Previous Version

Participants will be young people of 14 and 15 years old in selected state schools of Colombo District, Sri Lanka. Two schools will be selected as Intervention Schools while another two schools will be selected as Control Schools. Duration of the intervention will be 5 weeks. The students will be recruited through invitation. If consenting students exceed the required sample size, a simple random selection will be done. A digital storytelling educational video materiel about healthy eating and physical activity habits will be administered to the participants of the intervention group. Digital storytelling video material will be consisted of 4 consecutive video clips each 4 to 5 minutes long. Participants of the intervention group will be facilitated to watch four digital storytelling videos online on four days of four consecutive weeks. Control group will not receive any intervention. A baseline questionnaire will be administered to both the intervention group and the control group participants online before facilitating the intervention group participants to watch the first video. A post-intervention online questionnaire will be administered to both groups one week after watching the last video by the intervention group participants. Intervention group participants will be facilitated to watch the videos online. Questionnaires will assess about healthy eating and physical activity knowledge, attitudes, believes and behaviours of young people.

Next Version

Participants will be young people of 14 and 15 years old in selected state schools of Colombo District, Sri Lanka. Two schools will be selected as Intervention Schools while another two schools will be selected as Control Schools. Duration of the intervention will be 5 two weeks. Students will be recruited through invitation. If consenting students exceed the required sample size, a simple random selection will be done. A digital storytelling educational video materiel about healthy eating and physical activity habits will be administered to the participants of the intervention group. Digital storytelling video material will be consisted of 4 consecutive video clips each 4 to 5 minutes long. Participants of the intervention group will be facilitated to watch four digital storytelling videos online on four days of four consecutive within two weeks. Control group will not receive any intervention. A baseline questionnaire will be administered to both the intervention group and the control group participants online before facilitating the intervention group participants to watch the first video. A post-intervention online questionnaire will be administered to both groups one week immediately after watching the last video by the intervention group participants. Intervention group participants will be facilitated to watch the videos online. Questionnaires will assess about healthy eating and physical activity knowledge, attitudes, believes and behaviours of young people. All research activities will be conducted either online or face-to-face at school premises based on the willingness and convenience of participants and schools.